how much did she weigh? she s sara grace. she weighed 8 pounds. that s good, right? that s a good size, yeah. so then you have the situation, did you consult with the doctors about this? we ve got all our weather experts, you ve got the government authorities. what was the medical view on sort of the situation that you had to decide? so they essentially said that her count was a little high, it want dangerously high but it was a little high and the fact that her older brother also was born jaundiced put her in a high-risk category. that suggested that we needed to follow up daily on her bilirubin count. given what was happening, i could have ignored and taken a chance and gone out and maybe found a doctor days later. but that s a permanent decision if it goes wron so i made an executive decision
right now we are in miami lakes in a hotel. all right. and what s the situation for you? right now the weather is looking pretty bad. i originally had every intention of evacuating, but my daughter was born a week ago and while we were in the hospital we saw the storm coming and we saw how intense it was, but she was born jaundiced and the doctors told us that they had to keep a close eye on her bilirubin count, so we had to make daily follow-up appointments throughout the week. by the tame that her condition improved it was late in the week already, the traffic the highways were completely jam packed, there was no gas to be found, so at that point i had to make a decision, do i, you know, take my family, my newborn, my other two children, my wife out on the road and run the risk of being stranded out there or, you know, having to sleep in a rest stop, which i understand a lot of people had to do, or do i find fortified structure here and try to ride it out. first of all, con
born, a beautiful baby girl and she was born with jaundice. and if you re not familiar with that, that s something when the bilirubin count is too high in the blood. we had to make a lot of follow-up appointments with the doctor to make sure the counsel was going down. by the time we were done with th apintments, it was late thursday and friday, the roads were jammed and there was no gas to be found. at that point i had to make a decision do i take my newborn out on the road and take the risk of being caught on the road with her and my other two children and my wife or do i find shelter and, you know, kind of ride it out? james, first of all, congratulations and mazel tov, as we say, on the newborn. what s her name?